L.O.V.E and Other Disaffections
The London Postgraduate French Conference
Saturday, November 4 2017
Room 243, Senate House, London
09:00-09:30 Registration and coffee
09.30- 11:00 Panel 1: The Philosophy of Love
Chair: Joey Hornsby (KCL)
· Martijn Buijs (Johns Hopkins): Philosophy and the betrayal of love – reflections on the work of Jean-Luc Marion
· Marie Chabbert (Oxford): L’amour, dans les limites de la raison pure
· Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Cambridge): "La force d’aimer" - the politics of love in Jacques Derrida and Marc Crépon
11:00- 11:15: Break
11:15- 12.30 Keynote speech: Amaleena Damlé (Cambridge): Love’s Wonder: On Intimacy, Knowledge and Politics in Contemporary French Culture
Chair: Ben Dalton (KCL)
12:30-13:30: Lunch break (own arrangements)
13.30-15:00 Panel 2: Bodily (dis)affections
Chair: Rebecca Rosenberg (KCL)
· Jean Cristophe Corrado (Sorbonne): ‘‘On ne peut supposer une création n’ayant l’amour à l’origine’’: Jean Genet between amor naturans and amor naturatus
· Christine Stadler (TU Chemnitz): Desire and Dis-ease in Alexandre Bergamini’s Sang damné (2011)
· Antoniy Valchev (Toulouse): Chair, désir et sexe: abfigura du corps post-porn
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 17:15 Panel 3: Love and tragedy
Chair: Adina Stroia (KCL)
· Rebecca Rosenberg (KCL): Love in the Time of Hate: Love, Romance, and Inspiration in Au commencement était la mer (1996), and Hizya (2015) by Maïssa Bey
· Jezebel Mansell (Cambridge): A Labour of Love: Camille Laurens’s response to the loss of her son
· Rachel Sweet (KCL): Ambiguous ‘amor’ in the Chastelaine de Vergi and the varying value of love in some of its manuscripts
· Ross Smith (Sheffield): Protecting the Unseen Child: Tatiana de Rosnay’s Elle s’appelait Sarah
17: 15- 17:30: Break
17:30- 19: 00 Panel 4: Loving Feminism(s)
Chair: Sophie Eager (KCL)
· Laurence Pelletier (UQAM): Épistémophilie féministe: pratiques amoureuses de femmes savantes
· Katie Pleming (Cambridge): Desire, Femininity, and the Non-Oedipal Subject: Deleuze and the Films of Marguerite Duras
· Azza Mouelhi (Gabès): Le Bleu: couleur du désir dans La Vie d’Adèle (chapitre I et II)
19: 00 Drinks reception
20: 00 Conference dinner (restaurant TBC)
Website: https://loveconference2017.wordpress.com
Event page: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13997